218 POLYPODIUM, § EUPOLYPODIUM. 



jointed above the base, fronds 1-2 and even 3 feet long 2-6 

 inches broad pendent subcoriaceo-membranaceous flexuose 

 elongato-oblong pinnated, pinnte l-3i inches long i-| inch 

 wide remote spreading lanceolate long- or short-acuminate 

 very obliquely cuneate at the l)ase and there tapering into a 

 short petiole the margin entire or crenate, terminal one quite 

 free and petioled, costule slender, veins twice or thrice forked 

 branches parallel, sori in two series a little within the margin 

 globose, rachis tawny. — Forst. Prodr. p. 440. Willd. Sp. PI. 

 y.p. 185. Sw. Spi. Fil. p. 38 and 233. Schk. Fil. p. 15. 

 /. 16. Br. Prodr.p.\47. Metten. Pohjpod.p.QA. P. ma- 

 rattioides, " KJf. Syn. Fil." Arthropteris tenella, /. Sm. in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Nov. Zeal. ii. p. 43. t. 82. 



Hab. Pacific Islands, Forster (Swarfz). Isle of Pines and Lord Howe's Is- 

 land, Milne and Macgillivimy. New Zealand, N. Island, Dr. Hooker, Logan, 

 Colenso. Norfolk Island, AU. Cunningham, C.J. Simmons, Milne. Australia: 

 Port Jackson, Broivn; Brisbane and Hastings Rivers, All. Cunningham, Milller ; 

 and Clarence River, Dr. Beckler. — A climbing plant, running over the trunks of 

 trees, very different from the following but equally scandent species. 



Mr. J. Smith has an " Arthropteris ? filipes, of T. Moore, in Card. Chron. for 

 1855, p. 3G8, native of New Zealand?" I find none such there recorded. On 

 the contrary, Mr. Moore (Index Fil. p. 84) has an "■ Arthropteris filipes," of J. 

 Sm., which he refers to " Polypodium filijjes." 



124. P. (Eupolypodium) alte-scandens, Coll.; caudex very 

 long scandent more or less scaly, stipites scattered 3-4 inches 

 long jointed a little above the base stramineous downy and 

 tapering fusco-squamose, fronds (erect?) firm-membrana- 

 ceous 6-10 inches long 1^-2 inches broad oblong-lanceolate 

 rather obtuse pinnated, pinna? subhorizontal close-placed 

 from an obliquely cuneate base truncated and mostly auri- 

 cled above oblong ol^tuse pinnatifido-serrate, costule slender 

 pubescent, veins conspicuous prominent beneath, one to each 

 lobule or segment which is only once forked (that of the 

 auricle pinnated), sori globose in two series nearer the mar- 

 gin than the costule and each opposite to a sinus of the lo- 

 bules, rachis stramineous downy. — " Colla, PL Chil. Fasc. 

 ult. p. 48." Metten. Polyp, p. 64. P. procurrens, Kze. 

 Annul. Pterid.p. 17. 



Hab. Juan Fernandez, Bertero, in Herb. Hook. (" P. tenellum, Bert, mst.," not 

 Forst.). — A near ally of P. tenellum, but extremely different. Both are peculiar 

 to the southern hemisphere. 



125. P. (Eupolypodium) macrodon, Hook.; caudex 4 

 inches (and more ?) long stout stramineous brown, fronds 

 ample 14-19 inches long a foot and more broad broad-ovate 



